We shouldn't be surprised, but every second religion that you care to mention is also joining in the chorus of the end is nigh...Evangelicals and Born Agains are the most irritating. I overheard a Christian colleague say in hushed tones to another (regarding the spate of earthquakes in Christchurch, the second largest city in New Zealand): "The Day of the Lord is getting closer". I could have swatted this deluded soul like an annoying mosquito - but I didn't want to inadvertently make her feel persecuted and even display greater lunacy.
End-times believers have been plagued by pea-sized brains for millenia - that's why each generation naively ignores the tragedies and cataclysmic events of the past and focuses instead like candy-starved babies on immediate dramatic gratification...